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“Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.”
“Experimentation on humans is the prototypical activity of totalitarianism. It is the ultimate submission of reality to the pseudoscientific ideological fiction.”
Source: The Psychology of Totalitarianism
“Experimentation with sleeping supplements is required to find out which ones produce the best response.”
Source: Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue
“Experimentation with vitamin B12 showed that I needed to take 25,000 mcg daily, which was over a million times the recommended daily dose.”
“Experimenters are the shock troops of science.”
“Experimenters don’t come in late—they never went home.”
Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?
“Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.”
“Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull's-eye.”
“Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!”
“Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.”
“Experiments are the fastest and guaranteed way to learn.”
Source: Quantraz
“Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.”
Source: Accelerando
“Experiments in geology are far more difficult than in physics and chemistry because of the greater size of the objects, commonly outside our laboratories, up to the earth itself, and also because of the fact that the geologic time scale exceeds the human time scale by a million and more times. This difference in time allows only direct observations of the actual geologic processes, the mind having to imagine what could possibly have happened in the past.”
“Experiments in limiting reproduction to the undesirable classes were unconsciously made in mediæval Europe under the guidance of the church. After the fall of Rome social conditions were such that all those who loved a studious and quiet life were compelled to seek refuge from the violence of the times in monastic institutions and upon such the church imposed the obligation of celibacy and thus deprived the world of offspring from these desirable classes. In the Middle Ages, through persecution resulting in actual death, life imprisonment and banishment, the free thinking, progressive and intellectual elements were persistently eliminated over large areas, leaving the perpetuation of the race to be carried on by the brutal, the servile and the stupid. It is now impossible to say to what extent the Roman Church by these methods has impaired the brain capacity of Europe, but in Spain alone, for a period of over three centuries from the years 1471 to 1781, the Inquisition condemned to the stake or imprisonment an average of 1,000 persons annually. During these three centuries no less than 32,000 were burned alive and 291,000 were condemned to various terms of imprisonment and other penalties and 17,000 persons were burned in effigy, representing men who had died in prison or had fled the country. No better method of eliminating the genius producing strains of a nation could be devised and if such were its purpose the result was eminently satisfactory, as is demonstrated by the superstitious and unintelligent Spaniard of to-day. A similar elimination of brains and ability took place in northern Italy, in France and in the Low Countries, where hundreds of thousands of Huguenots were murdered or driven into exile.”
Source: The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
“Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.”
“Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke.”
“Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.”
“Experiments show that even three-year-olds have the intuition that rewards should be proportional to contributions, in places as different as Japanese cities and the camps of Turkana nomads in Kenya. Obviously, it does happen that people take more than their share-but that is universally considered exploitative, and people are eager to avoid or shun individuals who do that.”
Source: Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
“Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.”
Source: Our final century: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on Earth and beyond
“Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.”
Source: Elements of Chemistry
“Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.”
“Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.”
“Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.”
“Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con piedras tan pesadas que costaba levantarlas. Un día nos obligaban a construirlo y al día siguiente nos ordenaban que destruyéramos lo erigido; y así una y otra vez. La mayor tortura de todas las que he vivido consistía en la inutilidad de un trabajo sobrehumano.”
Source: Vestidas para un baile en la nieve
“Experimenté lo que ya había escuchado de algunos directores espirituales o leído en algunos libros, pero nunca había entendido plenamente: que la voluntad de Dios se puede discernir por los frutos espirituales que trae consigo; que la paz del alma y la alegría del corazón son dos de esas señales, siempre que surjan de un total compromiso, de una plena y exclusiva apertura a Dios, y no residan en los propios deseos. Que la validez de una llamada –bien sea la llamada a una vocación, bien a algún nuevo comienzo dentro de esa vocación– puede probarse por los movimientos del alma que la acompañan. Que los movimientos de la gracia de Dios deben ser siempre aceptados y entendidos a través de la vida de fe, porque, en definitiva, la verdad de toda acción misteriosa de la gracia se distingue a la luz de la fe, y no por la fuerza de la razón o el intelecto.”
Source: He Leadeth Me
“Expert advice on improving ur relationship - 4A's - attention,appreciation, affection & attraction.”
“Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.”
“Expert knowledge is limited knowledge”
Source: The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches
“Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?”
“Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.”
“Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.”
“Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“Expertise is about qualification and experience. Excellence is about quality of mind and awareness. Where expertise fails, the quest for excellence begins. Excellence often begins with examination of our own minds. Professional excellence is a result of developing a quality mind through constant awareness. Experts tend to think of themselves as those who have finally reached their goal. Those in pursuit of excellence are always beginners. Excellence is a journey without a finish line. It begins every day with a new awakening and a new insight that enriches the mind. Come, let’s begin!”
Source: Can You Teach A Zebra Some Algebra?
“Expertise is achieved only after working hard on hard problems.”
Source: Accelerated Expertise
“Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.”
“Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.”
Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”
Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929
“expertos. Ellos eran el mejor seguro de vida de los políticos. Los únicos que lo salvarían de cometer errores ante sus votantes y los tipos perfectos a los que echarles la culpa si algo salía mal”
Source: The Lost Angel
“Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.”
Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace
“Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.”
“Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.”
Source: Children of Dune
“Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.”
“Experts are just trained dogs.”
“Experts are saying that President Bush's goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why don't we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?”
“Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are.”
“Experts generally agree that taking all opportunities to read books and other material aloud to children is the best preparation for their learning to read. The pleasures of being read to are far more likely to strengthen a child's desire to learn to read than are repetitions of sounds, alphabet drills, and deciphering uninteresting words.”
“Experts have called Donald Trump's ignorance "breathtaking." Jeffrey Goldberg has said that Trump has "no understanding of the post-war international order that was created by the United States." Goldberg further stated that Trump shows "little interest in understanding why the world is organized the way it is.”
Source: What Donald Trump Supporters Need to Know: But Are Too Infatuated to Figure Out
“Experts have their expert fun ex cathedra telling one just how nothing can be done.”
“Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.”
Source: The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest
“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”